CAnMove

Research

I finished my PhD-studies in September 2006. I then mainly focused my studies on a breeding population of the great reed warblers at Lake Kvismaren in Närke, Sweden. With an extensive pedigree and individual measures of morphological, behavioural, phenological and life-historical traits, I study the effects of selection on the phenotypic and genetic variation in quantitative traits. Moreover, with the current advancement in our development of a great reed warbler linkage map we aim to study the genetic architecture of ecologically important traits in the population of Lake Kvismaren.
I am currently working as a researcher with Scandinavian wolf population. This is a small and recently founded population that is currently subject to high inbreeding levels. I am involved in individually monitoring this population with the aid of DNA-markers. This project is aimed at providing decisional advise for The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdverket) and County Administrative Boards (länsstyrelserna) in short- and long-term management decisions. In my research I focus on the utilization of DNA markers and pedigree data to study the effects of inbreeding among the wolves.